Jules was born in Hull in 1971 and moved to Leeds where he was educated, Jules Craig started doing hospital radio in his teens and just after was offered a years training at Radio Aire where he went on to do live shows.

After technical work at Transatlantic Productions making syndicated shows for the U.S.A. he acquired his "sea legs"' and joined Radio Caroline out in the North Sea.

I Joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 2001 and have over the years been part of the request team and have presented various shows and helped with fund raising events. Between 2005 - 2007 I had two years away from Harrogate Hospital radio due to work commitments, but when I moved back to the area I was welcomed back with open arms.I have most recently been Training Officer and also the breakfast show presenter five days a week 8am-10am.I am currently studio manager for Harrogate Hospital Radio.

You can also find me presenting The Afternoon show from midday till 3pm. Which includes Number ones @ one. The blues Cafe, the record of the week.
Sunday 1pm till 4pm including Back to the Future
Monday - Thursday 12-3pm

It was a chance meeting with Cathie Hague & former presenter Alison Butler at a Harrogate Hotel on Christmas Eve 2008 that started it all…

Hi, I’m Ellie Jackson, and together with Cathie Hague, present The Girls Who Shouldn’t Be Allowed on a Monday evening.

I got involved with HHR because I saw an article in my local newspaper about the station needing volunteers, so popped into the studio in March 2007. My training was broadcast on Radio York for a week as they were running their Volunteer Awareness Week, which was fab!

At the Members Meeting in June of 2007, I met Cathie Hague, who was attending for the first time and we were let loose with a microphone in August 2007. We have regular features and have loads of guests in. Through HHR we’ve also spoken with Dave Dee, and three of the stars of Heartbeat. I have to say Derek Fowlds, Joe McFadden and Rupert Ward-Lewis were lovely!

At the National Broadcasting Awards in Leeds in 2008 I received the Silver Award for the Best Newcomer, and was awarded a Highly Commended for Best Female Presenter at the 2009 Awards.

I count it as a real privilege to be involved with Harrogate Hospital Radio – they’re a grand bunch, and only wish I’d known about the organisation years ago.

Happy Listening!

Hi, I'm Cathie Hague and I present a show on Monday evenings with the lovable Ellie Jackson. We have loads of fun for those two hours with lots of great music, chat, feature and guests. I also help out with request shows, which are always great as there is such a variety of music.

I started in HHR back in 2007 and am absolutely loving it, they are all lovely people and work hard to entertain the patients, it's such a fab organisation.

I am also on the Committee as fundraiser, and managed to raise a fair amount of money last year by throwing myself out of a perfectly working plane doing a skydive - not bad for a girl who gets vertigo up a ladder!!!

I started as a (mobile) DJ at a very early age. Like a lot of DJ's at that time, my ultimate goal was to make it a career and end up on Radio 1. As none of you will ever have heard of me, you can tell exactly what became of that idea! 

My name is Vicki. I do The Vicki's Variety on Sundays from 2pm-4pm. My Show consists of anything interesting that I find to discuss, such as things that I’ve done or I’ve found via the internet. I also try to play music for everyone, ranging from, old to new and in between!!!

In my free time, I enjoy listening to music, meeting up with friends, going walking, going to the gym.

I sometimes do Request Collections around the wards. I really like talking to patients as well as helping to get them registered onto the Hospedia system.

Sunday Best is a show I love presenting every Sunday morning. I try to create an easy listening,relaxing atmosphere with an eclectic mix of modern pop, evergreen standards, light classical, jazz, folk and blues. There are pauses along the way for a quiz,a review of the Sunday papers,a memory voice competition and a sideways glance at some of the quirkier news items.

Music is like a wonderful mosaic,lifting spirits,entertaining and at the same time introducing you possibly to songs you've never heard before alongside recognisable,familiar tracks.

My associations with Harrogate Hospital Radio go back to December 2005.

I've always had a passion for music and radio and as a small boy I decided that I wanted a career as a chef,a steam engine driver,a pet shop owner or a radio announcer! After a lifetime in teaching I find this role as a radio presenter very fulfilling.For me music has the power to lift spirits,entertain and totally absorb you.It's all about communicating and sharing with people.

I first joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 1980 at the tender age of 20, the person responsible for me joining was Ian Wighton, Ian and I used to work at the same firm in Knaresborough, Ian used to go about wearing his Hospital Radio t-shirt this intrigued me so I asked him what Hospital Radio was, he told me the work they do, this sounded like the kind of thing I could do so I was given a few contact phone numbers, phoned the then chairman and the rest as they say is history.

During the intervening 29 years I have seen HHR go from strength to strength, I have held the the posts of Technical Operator, Presenter, Studio Manager, and Programme Controller.

At the moment I Present the Wednesday Evening request show from 8pm and the Sunday Supplement from 9am-11am.

My taste in music has due to doing Hospital Radio broadened over the years from Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Status Quo, to almost anything including some Classical music and Jazz.

Bill is both a presenter on the station and was our Chairman until March 2010.

Bill joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 2001 shortly after he retired from a business career. His interest in music of all kinds, experience in presenting to audiences and desire to do volunteer work for the community seemed to tick all the boxes and he has not looked back since.

He presents a Sunday evening programme titled “World of Nostalgia”, playing music and comedy to help bring back happy memories of the Fifties and Sixties. As he says “nostalgia is not what it used to be!”

My name is James Pollard, and I joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 2008.

I present the Kids show REBEL RADIO on Saturday afternoons 2 – 4 where i play the UK’s Number 1, the randomiser and lots of cool music.

I also present REQUEST REWIND on Friday evenings. This is where I play the requests from the day and some of the requests from during the week.

I joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 2008 as part of the Kids show REBEL RADIO.

In my time here I have broadcast into the Kids show from locations as far apart as the Hospital Broadcasting Conferences in Blackpool and Paisley and my holiday in the Channel Islands on the beach!

I really enjoy broadcasting to all the patients and listeners across Harrogate District Hospital and hope to be doing so for many years to come.

Stephen Hakes - Born in Hull, moved over to Leeds during university and began doing Hospital radio work at St Luke's Hospital Radio in Bradford and Kingstown Radio in Hull Hospital before starting at Harrogate Hospital.

I live in Harrogate with my wife Alison.

Cheese Show - Tuesday nights 7pm-9pm. The show were you can listen to all those tracks that you pretend you don't like but that you really love, the cheese classics, from Bucks Fizz to David Hasslehoff and back again via the B52's with a little bit of Bryan Adams and Bon Jovi thrown into the mix.

The show includes lucky decades dip at 7.30pm were we leave the song choice to the random computer program and invite you to guess the song title and artist.

Any requests and dedications welcome between 7pm and 9pm.

I joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in March 1978; less than a year after the station launched.

That is when we had just one turntable, one reel to reel tape machine and just the one microphone. How things have changed!.

I have always liked music and said I would like to work in radio and have done work for Stray FM (Harrogate), Yorkshire Dales Radio and Fresh Radio in Skipton; Wharfdale Radio (Otley). Harmony Radio (Harrogate) and Drystone Radio in Skipton.

I have had a few posts in hospital radio: fund raiser, librarian, studio manager and not forgetting the most important job... general dogs-body. Ha Ha!

I can say that I have enjoyed all my years in Harrogate Hospital Radio and still more to come.

Mark Bexley
- Chairman

Mark joined Harrogate Hospital Radio in 2004 and made a good start to his presenting career by winning Gold as Best Newcomer at the National Hospital Broadcasting Awards in 2005.

This was HHR’s first National Award and the start of a successful run for the station with us winning a grand total of 21 awards in the last 7 years.

Mark was responsible for setting up Rebel Radio, our award-winning Children’s Show. Outside of Hospital Radio Mark has presented and produced on BBC and Commercial radio. He was elected Chairman of the station in March 2009.

Nicola Pollard
- Membership Secretary

I have been a member of Harrogate Hospital Radio since 1990 and during that time have catalogued music and been Secretary as well as co presenting the Friday night request show.

My current role is Membership Secretary where I handle all personnel issues to do with the Station and deal with enquiries from prospective members.

If you are interested in joining HHR in any capacity your initial contact will be with me.

I still co-present request shows when time permits and have a son who is involved in the kids’ show Rebel Radio.

This is my fifth year as Information Officer.

My role involves keeping the music library up to date and checking the incoming emails and forwarding appropriate ones to the appropriate Hospital Radio members.

The filing system we use is a computer program & index card system. We catalogue the music alphabetically by artist and title.

Our music library contains everything from classical to rock to pop and anything in-between.

We hold most of our music on CD and on a computer playout system but we also hold vinyl as well.

I am also responsible for buying any Cd's that are asked for.